Calculators in schools

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  3 December 2011     21:33140817
  #1      
  some good news for a change, the cobbled together people are making a change to the national curriculum that requires children to learn basic numeracy before they can use a calculator for more complicated tasks.
  
  simple arithmetic, fractions and decimals are proving difficult for our young as things stand.
  
  a recent survey showed that only 36% were up to speed with percentages, doesn't bode well for the remaining 87%.
• Guest 653

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  4 December 2011     07:45140854
  #2      
  I wonder if the previous 21 viewers who have read your post, had worked out what you had said there Howard ? Worthy of at least one comment I'd have thought.
  
  Perhaps it doesn't bode well for our adults too.
  
  It is good news and sounds a very sensible approach.
  
  
  
  
  Roger
• Terry Nunn

  • Location: London Road, Dover
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  4 December 2011     09:02140865
  #3      
  I managed to put two and two together Roger but then I'm used to Howard's little tongue in cheek jokes.
  
  Terry
  Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• Guest 710

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  4 December 2011     10:03140874
  #4      
  I wouldn't want to say that many of Howard's bon-mots go unnoticed by the average Joe...that would be mean.
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• Sarah P

  • Location: Dover
  4 December 2011     11:56140883
  #5      
  I didn't want to post a one liner as a response
• Guest 653

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  4 December 2011     18:28140923
  #6      
  So what changed your mind Sarah ??
  
  
  
  
  Roger
• Sarah P

  • Location: Dover
  4 December 2011     19:36140946
  #7      
  Roger thats really unfair ! I now have to
  A ignore you which would be rude
  B post a reply which would be another one liner or
  C find some convaluted way to spin out my answer from one line to say .......4 or even 5 if I choose to put in a smiley
• Guest 653

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  4 December 2011     19:38140947
  #8      
  Love it - well done Sarah.
  
  I'll go with "C".
  
  
  
  
  Roger
• Keith Sansum1

  • Location: london
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  5 December 2011     08:29140986
  #9      
  roger
  where are you taking C TO??????????? LOL
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